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Profile of Group & Production
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Pritham K. Chakravarthy
Pritham K. Chakravarthy is an independent researcher, playwright, director, performer, film critic and activist from Chennai. Recent performances include her own solo piece about aravanis: Nirvanam, Mirror [Kannadi], Hands Off & Hit Me Not. The former has toured India, the USA under a Fulbright Fellowship and 2002 Edinburgh International Festival. She will tour the UK and India in 2005 with Orientations, a theatre production by Border Crossings, which opened in October 2003 at Watermans in London UK. The Last Matriarch is a new piece of work, which was especially commissioned by the Festival curators for the Kuttu Festival 2005.
The Last Matriarch
The Last Matriarch probes the invisible women in the Mahabharatha amongst the hordes of others. It concentrates in particular on Dushattai (Duhsala) — her angst of being the only sister in the entire Kuru vamsham, yet being completely ignored by a blind father, a wilfully blinded mother, one foster brother, hundred own brothers and five cousins.
As the epic does not say whether Dushattai went to heaven or to hell, Pritham's text assumes she had many, many rebirths and is born again today. She reads through the various versions of the epic and is puzzled, angry, not just at her plight but at the fact that there are so, so many Dushattais still in this world.
Contact
Pritham K. Chakravarthy
H21/1, Vaigai Street, Kalakshetra Colony
Besant Nagar, Chennai-600090, Tamil Nadu
Tel: +91 (0) 44 24468066
E-Mail: pcms@eth.net
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